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Comic Values in the Distant Future - Action #1 for $10M or $10?

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sundrycollect

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A friend of mine and I were talking this morning about old toy trains. (Lionel, Marklin you know...) Most of the people who collect these trains are older guys who saw monster steam engines in person when they were kids. It got me thinking about comics. A hundred years from now will someone pay over $3M for a copy of Action Comics #1? Will anyone care about Superman, Batman or the X-Men? Or will Action #1 sell for $10M?

 

What about "cheaper" books. Heritage sold this book last night, Animated Comics #nn, for almost a thousand bucks. Is that going to hold up?

 

Hulk 181, HOS 92, or, dare I say, Batman Adventures #12 in CGC 9.8?? ( $1475 recently for that one.) The list could go on and on.

 

Just curious what you all think. Me? I don't see these values holding up for the lesser stuff. For Superman, Spiderman and Batman...I could see it lasting...maybe. But it's a pretty murky crystal ball when sales of books in the thousands of dollars and up are so common place today. When all the older collectors are gone...so is the nostalgia. It will not be the same.

 

My two cents...

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loadstone

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My crystal ball says:

100 yrs: comics like AC 1 and AF15 will still be pricey (even accounting for inflation) but there will be a decline in demand and thus price over the next 50yrs which will level off for the next 200 yrs. then, when most copies have been lost to decomposition and the elements in about 400 yrs, the few remaining copies will be priceless and museum pieces only possibly exceeded by the remaining OA. I think AF 15's OA is in the Library of Congress. I'm sure many final remaining copies will end up as Museum pieces as the preservation requirements will be extreme. Who knows, it might end up like antique furniture or 100 yr old scotch.

 

Comics like IH 181 might have staying power but only if the characters remain as iconic as Superman or Spider-man. BA 12 is going to crash and burn.

 

And comics with Stan Lee's autographs will be worth even less after he is dead and no longer relevant. While authenticated Ditko's and Kirby's may remain strong but they too will eventually lose their value.

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asr0462

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The superhero movie bubble is going to burst at one point. When that happens, I think a lot of these killer books will lose some of their value. Action Comics 1, Tec 27, and AF 15 might retain a lot of their value because they inform more than just the hobby and have influenced culture itself.

 

However, I do believe a drop in value is coming to the hobby. Maybe not as severe as sports cards in the mid 1990s, but still a drop nonetheless.

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Ken Aldred

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Chances are that I won't be around in 200 years and I'm fairly confident my collection will have been sold off.

 

I'll have a punt on this as well.

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A friend of mine and I were talking this morning about old toy trains. (Lionel, Marklin you know...) Most of the people who collect these trains are older guys who saw monster steam engines in person when they were kids. It got me thinking about comics. A hundred years from now will someone pay over $3M for a copy of Action Comics #1? Will anyone care about Superman, Batman or the X-Men? Or will Action #1 sell for $10M?

 

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And comics with Stan Lee's autographs will be worth even less after he is dead and no longer relevant. While authenticated Ditko's and Kirby's may remain strong but they too will eventually lose their value.

 

There are no authenticated Ditko's or Kirby's.

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And comics with Stan Lee's autographs will be worth even less after he is dead and no longer relevant. While authenticated Ditko's and Kirby's may remain strong but they too will eventually lose their value.

 

There are no authenticated Ditko's or Kirby's.

 

How do you figure that out?

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The-Collector

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And comics with Stan Lee's autographs will be worth even less after he is dead and no longer relevant. While authenticated Ditko's and Kirby's may remain strong but they too will eventually lose their value.

 

There are no authenticated Ditko's or Kirby's.

 

How do you figure that out?

 

I was going to say.

 

Can PSA provide a COA for these too?

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A friend of mine and I were talking this morning about old toy trains. (Lionel, Marklin you know...) Most of the people who collect these trains are older guys who saw monster steam engines in person when they were kids. It got me thinking about comics. A hundred years from now will someone pay over $3M for a copy of Action Comics #1? Will anyone care about Superman, Batman or the X-Men? Or will Action #1 sell for $10M?

 

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A friend of mine and I were talking this morning about old toy trains. (Lionel, Marklin you know...) Most of the people who collect these trains are older guys who saw monster steam engines in person when they were kids. It got me thinking about comics. A hundred years from now will someone pay over $3M for a copy of Action Comics #1? Will anyone care about Superman, Batman or the X-Men? Or will Action #1 sell for $10M?

 

What about "cheaper" books. Heritage sold this book last night, Animated Comics #nn, for almost a thousand bucks. Is that going to hold up?

 

Hulk 181, HOS 92, or, dare I say, Batman Adventures #12 in CGC 9.8?? ( $1475 recently for that one.) The list could go on and on.

 

Just curious what you all think. Me? I don't see these values holding up for the lesser stuff. For Superman, Spiderman and Batman...I could see it lasting...maybe. But it's a pretty murky crystal ball when sales of books in the thousands of dollars and up are so common place today. When all the older collectors are gone...so is the nostalgia. It will not be the same.

 

My two cents...

 

 

 

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Buzzetta

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I will most likely be dead within the next sixty years. I won't care in the slightest what happens to the books, the people that take them or the hobby.

 

I will be worried whether or not I will be going up or down.

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